{"id":51749,"date":"2025-09-09T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=51749"},"modified":"2025-09-08T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:03:09","slug":"onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/","title":{"rendered":"Onimusha\u2019s almost 20-year hiatus was caused by a lack of resources as Capcom stretched out its assets across multiple IPs\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the reasons why last year\u2019s Onimusha: Way of the Sword reveal<\/a> was so surprising is that the franchise hasn\u2019t had a new game in almost 20 years (the last mainline entry being 2006\u2019s Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams). According to the game\u2019s developers, the lengthy delay was due to Capcom spreading out its assets across multiple IPs, leading to a lack of resources for a new Onimusha game \u2013 up until recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with JPGames<\/a>, producer Akihito Kadowaki reveals that many people at Capcom wanted to make a new Onimusha game for a long time. However, the size of the studio\u2019s previous projects – which include Devil May Cry 5, three Monster Hunter games, Dragon\u2019s Dogma 2, as well as two new Resident Evil titles and several remakes \u2013 required a lot of staff and time to develop. As a result, Capcom did not have enough resources to spare for a new Onimusha title. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This changed around 2020, when several core members of what would eventually become the development team for Onimusha: Way of the Sword finally assembled. In addition to finding enough manpower for the project, Capcom\u2019s proprietary RE engine was finally fine-tuned to a point where it had all the features needed to make the game. With the team and game engine in place, development for Way of the Sword began in earnest.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Onimusha:<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Onimusha: Way of the Sword\u2019s development team consists of roughly 170 people. While the team is aware that the success of the Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny remaster<\/a> has prompted requests for an Onimusha 3: Demon Siege remaster, Kadowaki says that diverting any manpower from Way of the Sword would negatively impact it. Given that they don\u2019t want to compromise on this latest entry, all of the developers are focused on creating the new title<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onimusha: Way of the Sword is scheduled to release in 2026 for PC (Steam<\/a>), PS5, and Xbox Series X\u2758S. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related articles<\/strong>: Capcom spent 2 years trying to get permission to use Toshiro Mifune\u2019s likeness in Onimusha: Way of the Sword<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onimusha: Way of The Sword will launch without differences between regions. \u201cWe want everyone to have the same experience,\u201d director says<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Onimusha: Way of the Sword developers explain why it took Capcom so long to get started on a new installment in the franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":51753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-51749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"\nOnimusha\u2019s almost 20-year hiatus was caused by a lack of resources as Capcom stretched out its assets across multiple IPs\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Onimusha: Way of the Sword developers explain why it took Capcom so long to get started on a new installment in the franchise.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Onimusha\u2019s almost 20-year hiatus was caused by a lack of resources as Capcom stretched out its assets across multiple IPs\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Onimusha: Way of the Sword developers explain why it took Capcom so long to get started on a new installment in the franchise.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-08T15:01:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250908-51749-header.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1528\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"859\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Carlos "Zoto" Zotomayor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Carlos "Zoto" Zotomayor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Onimusha\u2019s almost 20-year hiatus was caused by a lack of resources as Capcom stretched out its assets across multiple IPs\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","description":"Onimusha: Way of the Sword developers explain why it took Capcom so long to get started on a new installment in the franchise.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Onimusha\u2019s almost 20-year hiatus was caused by a lack of resources as Capcom stretched out its assets across multiple IPs\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","og_description":"Onimusha: Way of the Sword developers explain why it took Capcom so long to get started on a new installment in the franchise.","og_url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/","og_site_name":"AUTOMATON WEST","article_published_time":"2025-09-08T15:01:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1528,"height":859,"url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250908-51749-header.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_site":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/"},"author":{"name":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2812ca8facd5f161edfbc531cf81eb31"},"headline":"Onimusha\u2019s almost 20-year hiatus was caused by a lack of resources as Capcom stretched out its assets across multiple IPs\u00a0","datePublished":"2025-09-08T15:01:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/"},"wordCount":387,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250908-51749-header.jpg","keywords":["News (Japan-related)"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/","name":"Onimusha\u2019s almost 20-year hiatus was caused by a lack of resources as Capcom stretched out its assets across multiple IPs\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250908-51749-header.jpg","datePublished":"2025-09-08T15:01:00+00:00","description":"Onimusha: Way of the Sword developers explain why it took Capcom so long to get started on a new installment in the franchise.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250908-51749-header.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250908-51749-header.jpg","width":1528,"height":859,"caption":"Onimusha: Way of the Sword"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/onimushas-almost-20-year-hiatus-was-caused-by-a-lack-of-resources-as-capcom-stretched-out-its-assets-across-multiple-ips\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"\u30db\u30fc\u30e0","item":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Onimusha\u2019s almost 20-year hiatus was caused by a lack of resources as Capcom stretched out its assets across multiple IPs\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","name":"AUTOMATON WEST","description":"AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization","name":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","width":374,"height":190,"caption":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/AUTOMATON_ENG","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCabvYnvuUUbbGUrxkaFRgSA"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2812ca8facd5f161edfbc531cf81eb31","name":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/display-pic-100x100.jpg","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/display-pic-100x100.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/display-pic-100x100.jpg","caption":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor"},"description":"Automaton West writer. Zoto has been playing video games for 30+ years now but has only recently come to grips with PC gaming. When he isn't playing video games, he watches romance anime and gets mad when his best girl never wins.","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/author\/carlos-zotomayor\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51755,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51749\/revisions\/51755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}